Huntsman doesn't drop out. That was never why he was placed in the campaign to begin with.

Huntsman is a front for the Dems, set up first as a spoiler for Romney, and then, if and when Romney dries up, to run as a 'third party' candidate like the fake Tea Party candidates the Democrats have been bankrolling, to try to bleed off some of the independent and 'moderate' (Dem-Lite) GOP vote...

Huntsman is more a University President type than an American President type.

So's Obama. Woodrow Wilson - another authoritarian 'progressive' - is the role model for such beasts. We've had two too many of them, and it's about time to elect someone who takes supply and demand seriously, and isn't in the office for a sinecure.

What do debate rules matter anyways. Fox included Gary Johnson, a loopy libertarian who had no ideas that had resonance but excluded McCotter, an also ran who had just proposed a serious social security reform plan. Johnson was better television. http://tiny.cc/c166c

I agree with lavrenti lenin about why Huntsman keeps skating into the debate scrum. He is a moderate who proves a good foil for Romney and could credibly fund a 3rd party candidacy which would have the effect of re-electing Obama.

Big Mike said...He can't leave soon enough. Put his face next to "RINO" in the dictionary.------------------Along with any other Republican that believes evolution is true. And/or didn't grow up munching hushpuppies at a MegaChurch picnic.

What is up with the incessant "debating"? I know the media has an aggenda to get the Reps mainstreamed ASAP but do we really need 24/7 elecioneering months before the traditional start of the campaign season? Jeez, thank god for the DVR.

ChrisinMA - "You mean like your slapping the label "Israel ball-washer" on any candidate who doesn't want the Jews driven into the sea?"

No, that is another litmus test. Any Republican that talks about their evangelical religious duty to do as Israel wants, defend Israel even if destructive to US interests - Expresses a willingness to take on new wars like one with Iran "because Our Special Friend" wants us to?They pass the non-RINO litmus test.

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